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| Swim team strikes gold |
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By Jonathan Leask February 1, 2012
Josie Kydd won five golds, and silver in the women's 17 years and over. Kydd won the 50m and 100m freestyle, 50m and 100m butterfly while finishing second in the 400m freestyle. Henry Norris also had a big haul; men's 17 years and over with gold in the 200m and 400m individual medley and the 200m freestyle, silver in the 1500m freestyle and bronze in the 400m freestyle event. Grace Sommerville won four medals in the girls' 15-16 years age group. She won gold in the 200m and 800m freestyle, silver from the 400m freestyle and bronze in the 50m butterfly. Claire Burgess picked up gold in both the girls' 17 years and over 200m and 400m individual medley, with silver in the 200m butterfly and 50m breaststroke. Caitlin Johnstone and Lucy Clough both picked up two golds and silvers in the 13-to-14-year-old girls'. Johnstone had wins in the 50m and 200m butterfly and was second in the 200m breaststroke while Clough wins in the 400m and 800m freestyle and a second in the 200m freestyle. Jake O'Grady won gold in the 400m and 1500m freestyle and bronze in the 400m individual medley in the 15-16 year old boys. It was gold for Hunter Stewart in the 11-to-12 boys' 200m butterfly and in the same age group George Howden won bronze in the 50m breaststroke, while in the girls Olivia Mason also won bronze in the 50m breaststroke. In the boys' 15-16 years, Joseph Brown won silver in 400m individual medley and bronze in both the 200m individual medley and 100m breastroke. Josh Harkness claimed silver in the boys' 10 years and under 50m freestyle and there was silver for Phoebe Ganda in the girls 15-16 years 1500m freestyle, while Sam Woolf won bronze in the boy's 13-14 1500m freestyle. Both the women's relay teams also won bronze. This weekend the Ashburton Swim team has the Eastern Districts Championships event in Timaru, before a team of eight swimmers aged 10-to-12 head to Wellington for the New Zealand Junior Championships.
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